A learning support blog:

http://profile.typepad.com/reardonc

RSS feeds on Pageflakes:

http://www.pageflakes.com/karireardon42/

Motivation- Life Skills: http://www.dumblittleman.com/


Tools for reading, Writing, and Thinking:

great websites that offers a variety of graphic organizer printables- from Note taking, text awareness, talking to the text, and writing

http://lklivingston.tripod.com/essay/index.html

Learning Style
http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
A nice website that has a learning styles quiz and other informative links

Practice Driving Permit tests:


A free site with challenging practice tests that will give you a grade at the end of each quiz;
http://www.drivingdirectory.com/test/index.php

Career Cruising
www.careercruising.com
Students can access Career Cruising to help students research careers, research schools/education programs, take career/interest tests and create resumes. Create a profile and you can update your resume each year without having to start over. This is a free site for Parkland students. Please ask one of your teachers or any of the staff in the guidance office for the username and password if you do not know what it is.

Click, Speak
http://clickspeak.clcworld.net
A Firefox browser extension that adds text-to-speech capabilities to web pages. Students can hear web pages read aloud.

http://www.howjsay.com/
An online tool that can help you learn how to speak your vocabulary words or Biology terms.

Various graphic organizers:

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/

Time Management sites or worksheets:


A great site to help you learn how to schedule your day, create attainable goals, and more
http://www.studygs.net/schedule/

A few great "To Do" lists that helps you prioritize your assignments.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1JjKJbMLtKK-nBcP8dM7IrY05TU2lA4iFpYoe76obOW0&hl=en

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ak06S1AFDrPFdDI3RWhWZURRUC1vN0RZaTdoekt6X1E&hl=en#gid=0

Daily Schedule worksheets:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xD3OjGMxZqxAA8VxlBXknl7zdXRx3h9XSo3HWNKv6N0/edit?hl=en#
http://www.studygs.net/schedule/weekly.htm

Research Paper Tools:

http://www.noodletools.com/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
http://www.easybib.com/
http://www.citationmachine.net/

SAT Prep:

http://www.vocabtest.com/
http://www.majortests.com/sat/